Optical Character Recognition Bot

A Telegram bot to extract text from image using python

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About

You can send an image containing text to this bot and it will respond quickly with the extracted text from the picture!

Start chat with this bot on telegram

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Requirements

• Bot token from Bot Father, If you don't know how to get bot token, read this

• OCR api key, get your api key from here

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Installation

You can fork the repo and deploy it on Heroku :)

OR

• Clone this repository using

git clone https://github.com/amit-y11/the_ocr_bot

• Enter the directory and install all the requirements using

cd the_ocr_bot

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

• Make a .env file and paste your API_KEY and BOT_TOKEN

API_KEY = "Your Api key from https://ocr.space/ocrapi"
BOT_TOKEN = "Your Bot Token"

Run Your Bot using the following command :

python3 -m ocrbot